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Book of the Week: Ghettoside

Rhashan Stone

Jill Leovy

Miranda Emmerson

Elizabeth Allard

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A Murder

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investigation into the senseless murder of 18-year-old Bryant Tennelle.

investigation into the senseless murder of 18-year-old Bryant Tennelle, which sheds new light on LA's homicide epidemic. Read by Rhashan Stone.

Bryant Tennelle was eighteen years old when we was gunned down one spring evening in his neighbourhood in LA , one of many black Americans senselessly murdered that year. Ghettoside is the gripping story of the murder and of its investigation by John Skaggs, a brilliant, ferociously driven detective - a blond, surfer-turned-cop who is determined to track down the killers.

The award-winning reporter Jill Leovy was embedded with the LAPD for almost a decade and in Ghettoside she takes us on to the streets, inside the homes and into the community (which includes the notorious Watts neighbourhood) wracked by homicide. Here Leovy explores the tragic facts behind the disproportionately high murder rates of young black men.

Read by Rhashan Stone
Written by Jill Leovy
Abridged by Miranda Emmerson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Jill Leovy's true-life account of an LA murder investigation of teenager Bryant Tennelle

Journalist Jill Leovy's powerful true-life account of the investigation into the senseless murder of 18-year-old Bryant Tennelle, which sheds new light on LA's homicide epidemic. Read by Rhashan Stone

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